MRC has published Covid-19: Bulletin n ° 15 Mardi le 07 avril 2020. Excerpt from the Google translation and then a comment:
COVID-19 EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION IN KINSHASA, IN ITURI NORTH / SOUTH KIVU AND KWILU ON APRIL 07, 2020
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
• Since the start of the epidemic declared on March 10, 2020, the cumulative number is 183 confirmed cases. In total, there were 20 deaths and 10 people healed;
• 51 suspected cases under investigation;
• 1 new person healed;
• 111 patients in good evolution;
• 39 sick people in hospital (including 2 on respiratory assistance in Ngaliema and at the Sino-Congolese Friendship Hospital).
The distribution of hospitalized cases is as follows:
o 27 in Kinshasa, including 9 in Ngaliema, 7 at the Cinquantenaire Hospital, 6 at the University Clinics and 5 at the Sino-Congolese Friendship Hospital;
o 12 in the provinces;
• 3 new confirmed cases in Kinshasa;
• 2 new deaths from confirmed cases.
NEWS
Continuation of the containment of the commune of Gombe in Kinshasa
• Since Monday 06 April 2020, the commune of Gombe is in confinement, the inhabitants of this commune are confined to their homes. A decision taken to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in Kinshasa and everywhere in the DRC;
• On the second day of this confinement, the response strategies against the Covid-19 accelerate with the continuation of the decontamination activities of the Government House from inside and outside, in particular by disinsection and by the start of disinfection;
• This decontamination work, which concerns all the furniture, offices and other objects of the Hôtel du Gouvernement, will be carried out for five days and is carried out by a mixed team made up of experts from the response committee responsible for prevention and infection control as well as the sanitation service of the Ministry of the Environment;
• To carry out this containment, several barriers were erected by elements of the Congolese national police and the Congolese Armed Forces, as well as members of the Border Hygiene teams;
• The barriers are notably put in place at the crossroads of avenues of liberation-Itaga and Gombe, Huilleries-Itaga and Monts des arts,
• People involved in response activities have access to containment areas, respecting the measures put in place, namely hand washing and taking the temperature.
When you've got the hard-won expertise that the Congolese have gained from no fewer than 10 goddam Ebola outbreaks (the last one just a week, please God, from being declared over), you know what to do and you do it. A few venues around the world understand this intellectually, but the Congolese clearly understand this pandemic as an existential threat: ignore it, or respond half-heartedly, and you're going to die.
Many in the self-styled "advanced" nations are still wrapping their delicate minds around this idea. It could be the last idea they're capable of considering at all before they start wondering where their next breath is coming from.
